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Freedom of Speech: Tyranny’s Greatest Enemy (and Why We Should Care)
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“In nonsense is strength.”[1] These are Kurt Vonnegut’s words, but they also happen to be the message that the U.S. federal government sends to its citizens with each unapologetic justification of its ongoing efforts to censor First Amendment-protected speech. As we’ve seen from the Twitter Files and cases like Missouri v. Biden and Dressen v. Flaherty, according to the federal government,…
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Examining The CDC’s COVID Response Actions: “Coercion. Deception. Censorship.”
In June of 2022, the NIH published a study bemoaning Americans’ depleted trust in public health: “Public trust in federal government agencies has never been as important as it has been during the Covid-19 pandemic, yet public suspicions of scientific experts and levels of distruct of government institutions are increasing for a variety of reasons[.]”…
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Biden’s Social-Media Censorship Harms Us All
The Supreme Court will decide as early as Wednesday whether to stay the lower courts’ injunction against the administration’s social-media censorship in Missouri v. Biden. One of the solicitor general’s arguments in the government’s defense is that the well-documented injuries to the plaintiffs, who were direct targets of the censorship, don’t justify a broad injunction that…
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The SEC Puts Itself on Moot—Answering Justice Robert Jackson’s Eight-Decade-Old Query—Has the SEC Become a Law Unto Itself?
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Just Say No
A recent uptick in COVID-19 cases, accompanied by the predictable hysterical media coverage, has spurred nationwide chatter about a possible return to pandemic restrictions, from school closures to mask mandates. This is not baseless supposition, as schools, universities, and hospital systems across the nation have recently reinstituted masking and quarantine requirements. Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., recently reinstated a mask mandate in his Capitol…
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I Met Judge Pauline Newman. She Proves Age Is Just a Number
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When I decided to spend my summer as an intern at the New Civil Liberties Alliance, I had no idea I’d change my mind about the U.S. Constitution. But conversations with our elders have a way of changing our perspective. U.S. Circuit Judge Pauline Newman convinced me that the Framers got it right when they…
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